Ubuntu 20.04 LTS : Linux kernel (KVM) vulnerabilities (USN-5000-2)

The remote Ubuntu 20.04 LTS host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-5000-2 advisory. USN-5000-1 fixed vulnerabilities in the Linux kernel for Ubuntu 20.04 LTS and the Linux HWE kernel for Ubuntu 18.04 LTS. This update provides the...

Ubuntu 21.04 : Linux kernel (KVM) vulnerabilities (USN-4997-2)

The remote Ubuntu 21.04 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-4997-2 advisory. USN-4997-1 fixed vulnerabilities in the Linux kernel for Ubuntu 21.04. This update provides the corresponding updates for the Linux KVM kernel for Ubuntu...

kernel: powerpc: KVM guest OS users can cause host OS memory corruption

A flaw was found on the Linux kernel. On the PowerPC platform, the KVM guest allows the OS users to cause host OS memory corruption via rtasargs.nargs. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to data confidentiality and integrity as well as system availability...

RLSA-2021:3447 Important: kernel security and bug fix update

The kernel packages contain the Linux kernel, the core of any Linux operating system. Security Fixes: kernel: powerpc: KVM guest OS users can cause host OS memory corruption CVE-2021-37576 kernel: slab-out-of-bounds access in xdrsetpagebase in net/sunrpc/xdr.c CVE-2021-38201 For more details abou...

Important: Red Hat Security Advisory: kernel security and bug fix update

An update for kernel is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.2 Extended Update Support. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Important. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for...

Important: Red Hat Security Advisory: kpatch-patch security update

An update is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.2 Extended Update Support. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Important. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each...

Oracle Linux 7 : kernel (ELSA-2021-3327)

The remote Oracle Linux 7 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ELSA-2021-3327 advisory. - redhat: ppc64: CONFIGRTASFILTER Aristeu Rozanski 1906443 CVE-2020-27777 - powerpc/rtas: Fix typo of ibm,open-errinjct in RTAS filter Aristeu Rozanski...

Important: Red Hat Security Advisory: edk2 security update

An update for edk2 is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.2 Extended Update Support. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Important. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for ea...

RHEL 8 : kernel (RHSA-2021:3363)

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 8 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2021:3363 advisory. The kernel packages contain the Linux kernel, the core of any Linux operating system. Security Fixes: kernel: race condition in net/can/bcm....

SUSE SLES12 Security Update : kernel (Live Patch 40 for SLE 12 SP3) (SUSE-SU-2021:2846-1)

The remote SUSE Linux SLES12 / SLESSAP12 host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the SUSE-SU-2021:2846-1 advisory. This update for the Linux Kernel 4.4.180-94147 fixes several issues. The following security issues were fixed: - CVE-2021-37576: On...

SUSE-SU-2021:2846-1 Security update for the Linux Kernel (Live Patch 40 for SLE 12 SP3)

This update for the Linux Kernel 4.4.180-94147 fixes several issues. The following security issues were fixed: - CVE-2021-37576: On the powerpc platform KVM guest OS users could cause host OS memory corruption via rtasargs.nargs bsc1188838. - CVE-2021-28688: The fix for XSA-365 includes...

Denial Of Service (DoS)

linux-kvm:bionic is vulnerable to denial of service. The XFRM subsystem has a use-after-free, related to an xfrmstatefini panic, aka CID-dbb2483b2a46...

CVE-2021-29657

A flaw was found in the Linux kernel. A KVM guest on AMD can launch a nested guest without the Intercept VMRUN control bit by exploiting a TOCTOU vulnerability in nestedsvmvmrun. A malicious guest could use this flaw to gain unrestricted access to host MSRs, possibly leading to guest-to-host esca...

SUSE SLES12: kernel-livepatch-4_12_14-150_75-default / etc (SUSE-SU-2021:2695-1)

The remote SUSE Linux SLES12 / SLES15 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the SUSE-SU-2021:2695-1 advisory. This update for the Linux Kernel 4.12.14-12280 fixes several issues. The following security issues were fixed: - CVE-2021-22543: Fixed...

Ubuntu: Security Advisory (USN-5045-1)

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2021 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only ifdescription...

SUSE SLES12: kernel-livepatch-4_12_14-150_72-default / etc (SUSE-SU-2021:2746-1)

The remote SUSE Linux SLES12 / SLES15 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the SUSE-SU-2021:2746-1 advisory. This update for the Linux Kernel 4.12.14-12277 fixes several issues. The following security issues were fixed: - CVE-2021-22543: Fixed...

SUSE SLED15: cluster-md-kmp-default / dlm-kmp-default / gfs2-kmp-default / etc (SUSE-SU-2021:2756-1)

The remote SUSE Linux SLED15 / SLES15 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the SUSE-SU-2021:2756-1 advisory. The SUSE Linux Enterprise 15 SP2 kernel was updated to receive various security and bugfixes. The following security bugs were fixed: ...

CVE-2021-3682 affecting package qemu-kvm 4.2.0-48

CVE-2021-3682 affecting package qemu-kvm 4.2.0-48. A patched version of the package is available...

SUSE-SU-2021:2746-1 Security update for the Linux Kernel (Live Patch 0 for SLE 15 SP3)

This update for the Linux Kernel 5.3.18-57 fixes several issues. The following security issues were fixed: - CVE-2021-22543: Fixed an issue with KVM, related to the handling of VMIO|VMPFNMAP vmas, which allowed users with the ability to start and control a VM to read/write random pages of memory...

SUSE-SU-2021:2695-1 Security update for the Linux Kernel (Live Patch 17 for SLE 15 SP2)

This update for the Linux Kernel 5.3.18-2475 fixes several issues. The following security issues were fixed: - CVE-2021-22543: Fixed an issue with KVM, related to the handling of VMIO|VMPFNMAP vmas, which allowed users with the ability to start and control a VM to read/write random pages of memor...